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Théodore Rousseau

A Pond Among the Heather

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Théodore Rousseau

(Paris 1812 – 1867 Barbizon)

A Pond Among the Heather


Point of the brush and brown wash;

bears inscription and numbering, verso: à Ten / 1087

135 by 195 mm; 5⅜ by 7¾ in.

The artist's estate (L.2436),

sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 27 April 1868;

Alfred Sensier, Paris (1815-1877),

probably his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 10-15 December 1877, lot 362, 363, or 376;

Private collection;

sale, Paris, Sedelmeyer, 13 June 1907, lot 209;

Private collection;

with Jill Newhouse, New York, 1999,

where acquired by Diane A. Nixon

New York, The Morgan Library & Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, no. 82 (entry by Jennifer Tonkovich);

New York, The Morgan Library & Museum, The Untamed Landscape: Théodore Rousseau and the Path to Barbizon, 2014-2015, no. 41

M. Schulman, Théodore Rousseau: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre graphique, Paris 1997, p. 250, no. 489, reproduced